September 2025

Three implants to mend heart: Stent, Valve and a Defibrillator

By rjoshimgims September 29, 2025Tools in Health2 Comments

Three implants for the heart have changed the outcomes of heart disease - namely stents, artificial valves, and an implantable defibrillator. Stents can now open a tiny blood vessel supplying…

Christiaan Barnard, and his heart transplants

By rjoshimgims September 28, 2025Health Professionals

Christiaan Barnard was made famous on 3rd December 1967, when he performed first human to human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. He was just 45 when he performed…

Mayo clinic: The first modern group practice

By rjoshimgims September 21, 2025Health care facilities, Health system

William Worrall Mayo (WW Mayo), was born in England in 1819, studied chemistry and migrated to United States in 1845. He first worked as a pharmacist in New York, and…

Virginia Apgar, an accidental anesthetist

By rjoshimgims September 16, 2025Health Professionals1 Comment

All medical students are taught Apgar score, a 10-point scale to grade a just-born as healthy or at risk. This has made Virginia Apgar quite immortal. She however was neither…

William Osler and origin of residency in medical training

By rjoshimgims September 14, 2025Health Professionals

Medical training is long. Across the globe, students enter the medical school for an initial generic training. When medical students complete this initial 4-5 years of training, they become doctors.…